Head of Medical Operations - Diagnostics (f/m/d) - Inklusiver Job 🦼 🦻 🦯

Do you want to help create the future of healthcare? Our name, Siemens Healthineers, was selected to honor our people who dedicate their energy and passion to this cause. It reflects their pioneering spirit combined with our long history of engineering in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.

We offer you a flexible and dynamic environment with opportunities to go beyond your comfort zone in order to grow personally and professionally. Sounds interesting?

Then come and join our global team as Head of Medical Operations (f/m/d), to provide global executive leadership for clinical validation, in-market medical operations, and medical risk management across our diagnostics portfolio.

This role is a cornerstone of our enterprise execution system-ensuring that medical value propositions are translated into robust regulatory validation strategies, delivered with predictable execution, and sustained through safe, effective product performance in the field.

This position can be located across Europe and the United States of America.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

Clinical Validation (Primary Accountability)

• You translate medical value propositions into regulatory-ready clinical validation strategies.
• You lead global planning and execution of registrational and validation studies.
• You ensure adherence to timelines, quality standards, and resource efficiency.
• You establish clear delivery commitments with core teams and functions.
• You proactively identify and mitigate execution and delivery risks.

In-Market Product Support

• You own the medical operations framework for post-launch clinical support.
• You ensure rapid, structured response to clinical inquiries and performance issues.
• You maintain continuity between pre-market assumptions and real-world performance.
• You enable scalable, globally deployable product support models.

Medical Risk Management

• You strengthen lifecycle medical risk management aligned with regulatory and quality systems.
• You oversee clinical aspects of post-market surveillance and vigilance.
• You lead cross-functional responses to significant clinical or medical risks.
• You systematically integrate post-market learnings into validation strategies and product improvements.

Enterprise Integration & Operating Model

• You exercise direct decision authority over execution approaches and operational trade-offs.
• You align validation priorities with Business Lines and enterprise strategy.
• You partner closely with Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Medical Sciences, and Strategy teams.
• You act as a visible executive role model for accountability, execution discipline, and collaboration.

Capability Building & Continuous Improvement

• You build a scalable, cost-effective, future-ready clinical validation and medical operations system.
• You improve execution maturity, predictability, and transparency.
• You develop global talent and leadership pipelines.
• You establish metrics and governance that reinforce ownership and delivery focus.

To find out more about the specific business, have a look at https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/products-services

Your qualifications and experience:

• You have a university degree in medical engineering
• You have senior leadership experience in clinical validation, clinical operations, or medical operations within:
  • IVD diagnostics (strongly preferred)
  • Medical devices (acceptable alternative)
• You possess demonstrated accountability for global clinical validation delivery supporting regulatory submissions and lifecycle management
• You have the proven ability to translate medical and clinical strategies into execution-ready regulatory validation plans
• You have experience in supporting products post-launch, including in-market clinical support and medical risk management
• You have a strong track record of operating in matrixed, global IVD or medical device organizations
• You have a deep understanding of global clinical validation and regulatory pathways
• You have experience in supporting regulatory submissions and interactions
• You have a strong grounding in post-market surveillance, vigilance, and risk-benefit assessment

Your attributes and skills:

• You have fluent English language skills (verbal & written)
• You own outcomes and delivery commitments
• You exercise collaborative authority with decisiveness
• You have a hands-on, execution-focused leadership style
• You have a strong lifecycle and systems thinking
• You drive rigor and predictability without slowing innovation
• You are flexible for international travel of around 40%

Our global team:

Siemens Healthineers is a leading global medical technology company. 73,000 dedicated colleagues in over 70 countries are driven to shape the future of healthcare. An estimated 5 million patients across the globe benefit every day from our innovative technologies and services in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine, as well as digital health and enterprise services.

Our culture:

Our culture embraces different perspectives, open debate, and the will to challenge convention. Change is a constant aspect of our work. We aspire to lead the change in our industry rather than just react to it. That's why we invite you to take on new challenges, test your ideas, and celebrate success. Check our Careers Site at https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/de/careers

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities. #myabilityshs

Wish to find out more before applying? Contact us: recruitinggersupport.func@siemens-healthineers.com , if you wish to discuss any initial questions with our recruitment team. The contact person handling this job ad is Klaus Kouril.

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